Looks at the life of Malala Yousafzai, a Muslim teenage girl from Pakistan, who advocates for education of women and children, and whom the Taliban attempted to assassinate on October 9, 2012.
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Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school, but when she wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in Pakistan, she realized that words can bring about change.
